Sat. April 11
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"HE HAS GIVEN US...A LIVING HOPE." (1 PETER 1:3 NIV)
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Jesus conquered death for you! (1)
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Ernest Becker wrote a book called The Denial of Death. In it he said we live our lives ignoring, avoiding and repressing the truth that we are mortal, and sooner or later we are all going to die. He pointed out that it's the reason for our workaholism, approval addictions and obsession with money and security. Becker published his book in 1974 with great acclaim, won the Pulitzer Prize and became famous. That year he found our he had cancer. That year he turned to God. That year he died.
..........It's said that Arizona has the largest cryonics foundation in the world. For a healthy fee your blood can be filled with anti-coagulants, your body frozen and stored in a capsule of liquid nitrogen at minus 320 degrees until you can be reheated later. At that point advanced medical technology can cure whatever disease killed you and you can live again. Or if you don't like being cold, another company offers "eternity in a paperweight." For a small fee you DNA is put in little box for the next 10,000 years so that you can be cloned whenever it's convenient. They also offer a 10,000-year money-back guarantee, though it's hard to say who will collect if things go wrong. John Ortberg writes: "We try to outsmart death in more subtle ways; health clubs, skin creams, surgical techniques, new diets, warmer climates, better medications, smarter doctors and more. Perhaps science will help us live forever, like Gulliver's toothless, hairless, memoryless, race of Struldbrugs." Rejoice, Jesus conquered death, and His resurrection guaranteed yours: "He has given us...a living hope through the resurrection...into an inheritance that can never perish" (1Pe 1:3-4 NIV).
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